The results of the inaugural Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) postdoctoral scholar travel award were announced on June 17, 2024. This new annual opportunity offers awards of up to $1000 each to reimburse and/or contribute to the costs associated with attending and/or presenting research at national and international academic scientific conferences.
2024 Award Recipients
Jason Griffin
Project title: Decoding the temporal dynamics of face-specific neural representations in autism: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT)
Mentor: James McPartland
Cheyeon Ha
Project title: Understanding students’ emotion regulation strategy selection using a network analysis approach
Mentor: Christina Cipriano
Erin Suzan Isbilen
Project title: Memory representations are flexibly adapted to orthographic systems: A comparison of English and Hebrew; Finding words in a sea of text: Word search as a measure of sensitivity to statistical regularities in reading
Mentor: Richard Aslin
Clíona L. Kelly
Project title: Racial disparities in maternal brain research
Mentor: Helena Rutherford
Review Committee & Application Process
Postdoc travel award committee co-chairs Karim Ibrahim and Soraya Scuderi met on May 29, 2024 to review all applications. “We were impressed with the diversity, rigor, and quality of submissions,” they commented. Each application was scored and discussed using an NIH Study Section format.
The intention is to offer this opportunity annually going forward. Eligible candidates must hold a position as YCSC postdoctoral associate or fellow and submit an abstract that has been accepted for presentation (poster or oral presentation) at a national or international scientific conference with a focus on research performed as part of their role in the department. Additional information and application instructions are available on the center’s intranet.